Look on the bright side -- I guess.

Blogger used to produce an RDF feed that was totally incompatible with RSS,
and they called it RSS.

Now at least their totally incompatible feed has a different, not-confusing
name.

But you're right, it's a transparently hostile move.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Grumet" <aegrumet@...>
To: <berkman-thursday@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: [berkman-thursday] blogger syndication


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> I think it's a direct attack. A friend of mine with a free blogspot
> account, who had no feed before, now has a free Atom feed. He IMed me
> yesterday to say, hey, now I could subscribe to his blog finally.
> Unaware of the history, he was just happy to have a feed.
>
> Also, run a search on "RSS" in the blogger docs. It returns pages
> about Atom that don't even contain the string "RSS".
>
> -Andrew
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